XSPC RS360 Radiator Good Enough?

minty · 27 Jan 2012 at 19:10

Hi All, im going to build my first computer this weekend and i have got all my bits and pieces together. I was just wondering if the XSPC RS360 Radiator is going to be good enough to cool in a CPU loop.

The water cooling bits i have got are

alphacool vpp655 pump
ek d5 acetal top
ek supreme hf nickel plexi cpu block
ek bay spin resovoir
XSPC RS360 Radiator
loads of compression fittings and tube 1/2 inner 3/4outer
6x coolermaster sickleflow red 120mm fans (im going to use them for push/pull)

the water cooling is going to be cooling an i5 2500k on a z68 asrock fatal1ty mobo.

the rest of the specs of the computer are

xigmatek elysium case (absolutely massive)

8gb gskill ripjaws x 1600mhz
128gb corsair force ssd
akasa six channel fan controller
1x xfx 6970 gpu
850w ocz psu

i plan to mount the rad in the top of the case. v excited but i hope that the rad will be ok?

cheers

minty

:(Rhodri:) · 27 Jan 2012 at 19:20

Yeah it'll be fine, mine was doing an i7 950 and 5970 with just push fans for ages and temps were ok.

Cleeecooo · 27 Jan 2012 at 19:44

Welcome to the forums

Yes, the RS will be fine. But you may aswell get a thick rad for the elysium with some scythe gentle typhoons

minty · 27 Jan 2012 at 20:02

cool, i think i will probably sometime down the line want to cool the gpu and i will probably install a 2nd loop (plenty of space for it) and use the XSPC RS360 Radiator for the gpu and a thick rad for the cpu cooling. Need to get saving :S

Cleeecooo · 27 Jan 2012 at 20:19

Dual loops is pointelss.

Better to go for a thick rad now and put the CPU and GPU on in the same loop

vectisitch · 28 Jan 2012 at 00:07

Cleeecooo said:
Dual loops is pointelss.

Better to go for a thick rad now and put the CPU and GPU on in the same loop

yep.i went from single to dual loop and got worse temps so i went back to single.

Cleeecooo · 28 Jan 2012 at 00:15

vectisitch said:
yep.i went from single to dual loop and got worse temps so i went back to single.

How does that work?! Lol!

Dual loop should theoretically have better or the same temps.

vectisitch · 28 Jan 2012 at 11:32

dunno i just got worse temps

Cleeecooo · 28 Jan 2012 at 14:21

vectisitch said:
dunno i just got worse temps

lol!

What rads were you using in each loop?

vectisitch · 28 Jan 2012 at 15:00

i had an EK coolstream 360 and Ek coolstream 240 in the single loop.then i went EK 360 to cool the gpu and another EK 360 to cool the cpu and got slightly worse temps???????i've now got a single loop of ex360 and RX240 cooling my 2700k at 5ghz with 1.36v and 3 gtx470's sli.not happy with it so i'm changing the Rx240 for an EX480

Cleeecooo · 28 Jan 2012 at 15:02

vectisitch said:
i had an EK coolstream 360 and Ek coolstream 240 in the single loop.then i went EK 360 to cool the gpu and another EK 360 to cool the cpu and got slightly worse temps???????i've now got a single loop of ex360 and RX240 cooling my 2700k at 5ghz with 1.36v and 3 gtx470's sli.not happy with it so i'm changing the Rx240 for an EX480

That's certainly very confusing!

Dual loops can look a lot better though!

vectisitch · 28 Jan 2012 at 15:09

i know,thats why i did it really ,to have two different colours.i rebuilt my loop the other day and went from uv blue to some mayhems uv red.the red stained my tygon tubing straight away and didn't really glow.messy stuff so i went back to my thermochill ec6 uv blue